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Sean Rafferty at Home

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Sean Rafferty visits musicians at home and at work to learn about their lives and music

Sean Rafferty visits leading musicians at home and at work to learn about their lives and music

Sean Rafferty at Home: Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner

25/12/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Sean Rafferty at Home, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner at his organic farm. He talks about his music, farming and his life-long love passion for Bach.

For a Christmas Day edition of this series, Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit the conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner at his organic farm.

John Eliot Gardiner is not only one of today's pre-eminent and most sought-after interpreters of Bach's music, but he also works a sizeable organic farm in Dorset, which includes rare Aubrac cattle. His family are rooted in this corner of Dorset and his father was one of the first truly organic farmers, and a founder member of the Soil Association.

Sean Rafferty visits the organic farm that John Eliot Gardiner calls home. This is an extended interview in which Sean talks to John Eliot Gardiner about his career at the top of the international Early Music scene, his life-long passion for Bach, travelling the globe to make music with some of the world's finest orchestras and opera companies, and the music and poetry that influenced him as a child growing up in Dorset. He also talks about the challenges of combining his life in music and farming.

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